No Hope for Heaven, No Fear of Hell

James C. Kearney teaches at the University of Texas in Austin and is the author of Nassau Plantation; co-editor of Journey to Texas, 1833; and translator and editor of Friedrichsburg: The Colony of the German Fuerstenverein. Bill Stein was director and archivist at the Nesbitt Memorial Library in Columbus. James Smallwood was the author of more than twenty books on Texas history.

I am enormously impressed by this project. There is high drama, tragedy, strong characters, conflict between families, vengeance, and a series of vicious shootouts over a lengthy period of years."" - Bill O'Neal, State Historian of Texas and author of The Johnson-Sims Feud ""The last major Texas feud has been explored in No Hope for Heaven, No Fear of Hell. . . . Kearney brought the project to completion with this well-researched, well-written study."" - True West ""[Y]ou will find this book endlessly fascinating, filled with gunfights, ambushes, unexplained deaths, murder, juries allowing culprits to go free, and all sorts of skullduggery within the law enforcement community, since many of the sheriffs were related to one combatant or another. Anger, resentment, revenge, hard feelings, and smoldering payback fill these pages."" - Chronicle of the Old West